{"id":11977,"date":"2023-10-18T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:14:47","slug":"inside-the-power-struggle-between-california-politicians-and-judges-on-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11977","title":{"rendered":"Inside the power struggle between California politicians and judges on homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;California politicians have been unable to make meaningful headway on a deteriorating homelessness crisis, and the conflict has shifted to a new arena out of their control: courtrooms. A series of rulings in California and beyond has barred cities from clearing encampments even as mayors are contending with lawsuits that accuse them of failing to do so. Sacramento\u2019s top prosecutor hit the city with such a complaint, and Los Angeles spent years in legal limbo after a judge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/judge-orders-la-to-offer-shelter-to-homeless-on-skid-row\/#:~:text=Carter%20ordered%20officials%20to%20house,living%20there%20within%20180%20days.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ordered the city and county to shelter every person in a sprawling encampment<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/10\/04\/california-homelessness-crisis-judges-00119504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/10\/04\/california-homelessness-crisis-judges-00119504<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;California politicians have been unable to make meaningful headway on a deteriorating homelessness crisis, and the conflict has shifted to a new arena out of their control: courtrooms. A series of rulings in California and beyond has barred cities from clearing encampments even as mayors are contending with lawsuits that accuse them of failing to do so. Sacramento\u2019s top prosecutor hit the city with such a complaint, and Los Angeles spent years in legal limbo after a judge ordered the city and county to shelter every person in a sprawling encampment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/10\/04\/california-homelessness-crisis-judges-00119504<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,790,557,1489,1213],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-homelessness","tag-judges","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11978,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions\/11978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}